Safeguard measures imposed by the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) on European frozen bone-in chicken cuts (expired in March) were found to be inconsistent with the EU-Southern African Development Community Economic Partnership Agreement (EU-SADC EPA) in a report issued by an arbitration panel on 3 August.
This measure, introduced in 2018, took the form of higher tariffs on imports of European frozen bone-in chicken cuts. A few months later, the EU judged that this undermined the...